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Mentor textsWriting workshopGrades 3–5

Help your students read like writers
— and actually want to write.

Original mentor texts and ready-to-teach writing workshops for grades 3–5. Written by a teacher, built to pick up and teach tomorrow.

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A mentor text with three lessons, or a print-and-go planner — your pick.

Illustration from An Unlikely Hero: Tom sits on his bed lacing his boots by moonlight, a map on the floor and his dog asleep beside him.

FreeNovemberPersonal narrative

New for November: a free Family Traditions planner

The My Family Traditions Map: a heart divided into who is there, where it happens, what we eat, what we always do, what I hear, a time it went wrong and the best moment.

Every family has a tradition, so every child has a story. A traditions heart map and a story planner for writing about one small moment.

Grades 3–5. No spam — just an email when there’s a new lesson.

The cover of Veterans Day Opinion Writing: an old oak beside a gravestone, over a list of what is inside — five lessons, three planners, an original news article and a rubric.

NewVeterans Day$5.50

Veterans Day — opinion writing

Should the old oak stay? An original town news article, three planners by grade and five lessons planned for you.

Rubric + answer keyNo picture book neededGrades 3–5

Teaching Remembrance Day? There’s a Canada and an Australia/UK edition (opens in a new tab) too.

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Narrative writing$4.50

Come In — a spooky mentor text

The first page of Come In, “Reaching the Door”: the story beside an illustration of a boy at the gate of a dark house, with six activity boxes underneath.

An original illustrated story in seven pages, with six activities on every page. The lesson plans are already written, and students finish by planning a spooky story of their own.

7 illustrated story pagesTeacher guideStory plannerGrades 3–5

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The first page of the student workbook: The 5 Writer Moves — make it precise, make me picture it, make me feel it, make me sense it, make it flow.

Descriptive writingGrades 3–5$3.50

Show, Don’t Tell — the workbook

Five lessons, one writer move each, for stronger descriptive sentences. Students write before and after on the same prompt, so they can see what changed.

13-page student workbookTeacher guidePre- and post-assessment

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Narrative Writing Unit Bundle$6.00Save 25%

Both together — one download

Come In and the Show, Don’t Tell workbook in one download. Read like a writer, then write like one.

Come InThe workbook$8.00 bought separately

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Notice → Effect → Try it

Every lesson follows the same three steps:

  1. Notice

    Notice what the author did — the word, the pause, the detail.

  2. Effect

    Name the effect it had on you as a reader.

  3. Try it

    Try it in your own writing.

That’s where writing actually improves. Not from a list of rules, but from a reader who has seen the move done and wants to try it themselves.

Written by a teacher, not bolted together

I’ve spent more than twenty years in primary and secondary classrooms. I write the mentor texts myself and build the lessons around them, so the story and the teaching fit together instead of one being added on afterwards. Every resource is differentiated, because the range in a real classroom is wider than one worksheet allows for — and I write for the reluctant writers too.

Anastasia, smiling, photographed outdoors in the sun.

Anastasia, Writing Workshop Library

Looking for something I haven’t made yet? Tell me at hello@writingworkshoplibrary.com. The direction is yours.

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Grades 3–5. No spam — just an email when there’s a new lesson.